Swiggy
Leading Indian food delivery aggregator with complex real-time logistics.
4 Rounds
~15 Days
Hard
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Interview Question Bank
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a multi-region active-active architecture on AWS for Swiggy's core order management system to ensure high availability during a regional outage.
#AWS
#Global Accelerator
#DynamoDB Global Tables
#Route53
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design the cloud infrastructure for Swiggy Instamart's real-time inventory system. It needs to handle high read/write throughput and ensure items aren't oversold.
#AWS
#Redis
#Kafka
#Databases
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a rate-limiting service at the API Gateway level to protect Swiggy's backend services from abuse or DDoS attacks during New Year's Eve.
#Rate Limiting
#API Gateway
#Redis
#Algorithms
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Swiggy uses Kafka extensively for event streaming (e.g., order state changes). How do you architect a highly available Kafka cluster across multiple Availability Zones?
#Kafka
#High Availability
#Zookeeper/KRaft
#AWS
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design a CDN and caching strategy to serve millions of restaurant menus and food images with ultra-low latency across India.
#CDN
#CloudFront
#Caching
#S3
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